Chicago Fine Art Salon is an artist-run gallery and studio committed to supporting the artists’ community in Chicago. We sell original art, teach art classes, and host group and solo exhibitions.
News this Week:
Our New Call for Art: “Small Works”
The Chicago Fine Art Salon is excited to announce our next group show, “Small Works.” Continuing tradition, this will be the Salon’s third Small Works show, and we want your submissions! The Call for Art will open in early October and the show’s opening reception will be December 6th.
Although the only requirement for this Call for Art is for your piece to be less than 18’’ by 18’’, you can submit artwork made with any medium and style. We accept both 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional work.
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Open Now: Jayne King’s “Strata”
Strata’s Artist Statement:
These vessels are inextricable from the thousands of years of ceramic history preceding them, and the enduring materiality of clay that positions the medium as a critically important tool for understanding the past. Informed by the stratigraphic principles of archaeology and geology that assist researchers with understanding hominin history and deep time, these works exalt the unseeable things underfoot and consider the intersecting relationships between social invisibility, utilitarian craft history, and the subterranean mechanisms that both govern and record activity on earth.
(Imagine the pots are already fragmented and buried underground, preserved in time for a future archaeologist to unearth and interpret.)
See the work and come to her opening ceremony for “Strata” on Saturday, November 9th from 5 to 9 PM at 1400 N. Halsted Ave
Chicago Artist Shanti Grandhi’s “Framed Absence: A Lyrical Dance”
Shanti Grandhi is currently a second year MFA Candidate in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was born in Arlington Heights, IL and lived in New York City before joining SAIC.
Her paintings are a meditation on narratives, how history gets written and how the language of paint makes meaning. Through mark making and color, she explores her relationship with culture, memory, time and space. Pulling fragments from a wide range of the art historical canon such from Indian miniature paintings to Tintoretto and Michael Armitage, she stitches together various experiences—lived, imagined, inherited and appropriated. She seeks to create sensations, feelings and movement and to find moments of rest amongst the motion.
Shanti also holds degrees from University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard Business School.
We Want Your Prints!
CFAS is looking for artists with prints made and ready to sell! CFAS participates in art festivals around the Chicago area year-round and can sell your artwork at our booth or table, to make it available to more customers. Some festivals we participate in include the Andersonville Galleria, West Loop Art Festival, West Fest, Wells Street Art Festival, Mayfest, and more. Artists who submit to our Call for Prints are also eligible to be part of our Featured Artists group, with an opportunity for inclusion in a group show or solo show.
The submission deadline is November 25, 2024, with an opening reception coinciding with Art City’s miar. and NEW Gallery openings on December 13th, 2024.
Submission Requirements
$7 per Image
$42 for 7 Images
Images must be at least 300 DPI
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